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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 13, 2014Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2014, 5:40 PM CDT for Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 80 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2014, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 80 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Mills County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 13, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 334 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 439 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 13, 5:22 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 5:22 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 5:24 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
524 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-141145-
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-
ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-
JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-NAVARRO-
FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-LIMESTONE-
LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON-
524 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS
THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...
MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A BONHAM TO COMANCHE THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER
HAZARDS...HOWEVER A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNSET FOR AREAS ALONG AND
WEST OF A LINE FROM SHERMAN TO CORSICANA TO HEARNE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
FROST IS POSSIBLE TUESDAY MORNING ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS.

A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS TO NORTH TEXAS THURSDAY
INTO THURSDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF THE
AREA.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 13, 2:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
205 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

TXZ122-131930-
VAN ZANDT TX-
205 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  VAN ZANDT COUNTY

AT 205 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
45 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CANTON...EDGEWOOD...
FRUITVALE...GRAND SALINE...VAN AND PURTIS CREEK STATE PARK.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3237 9581 3235 9592 3236 9608 3253 9607
      3277 9584 3277 9576 3276 9576 3274 9570
      3271 9566 3272 9564 3270 9559 3254 9559
TIME...MOT...LOC 1905Z 234DEG 37KT 3249 9591

Special weather statement, Apr 13, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
300 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

TXZ115-132030-
STEPHENS TX-
300 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHERN STEPHENS COUNTY

AT 259 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF BRECKENRIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CRYSTAL FALLS.

PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FROM THIS
STORM.

IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3293 9910 3294 9910 3297 9902 3296 9895
      3296 9894 3296 9875 3280 9871 3274 9910
      3292 9911
TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 254DEG 30KT 3283 9914

Local storm report, Apr 13, 4:54 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 5:16 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 3:01 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FWD	Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 28 more	16 hr
Apr 13, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	25 min
Apr 13, 3:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	30 min
Apr 13, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	64 min
Apr 13, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	63 min
Apr 13, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	52 min
Apr 13, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland, Erath	64 min
Apr 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	29 min
Apr 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	63 min
Apr 13, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas, Mills	67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.